Chris Hartman | Make your voice heard to legislators on LGBT Fairness

9:29 PM,
Oct. 26, 2013

Chris Hartman

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Chris Hartman
| Special to The Courier-Journal

A few years ago, our Fairness Coalition penned a piece that began, "Kentucky - it's a state of Fairness!" We'd just received polling that proved the vast majority of Kentucky voters support simple discrimination protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people - 83 percent of voters, to be exact. At that time, however, only three cities in our commonwealth had adopted anti-discrimination Fairness ordinances - Covington, Lexington, and Louisville - and there was little movement afoot for change.